I recently ported (most of) a small to medium sized Flash-based application from ActionScript 3.0 to ActionScript 2.0 - yes, that's going down not up - and I thought I'd share some insight gained from that experience.

For the longest time I've been using a "go" URL to quickly access the Flex ActionScript 3.0 language reference:http://adobe.com/go/AS3LRThis is a redirect for:http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/index.html... or whatever is the most up-to-date language reference for Flex currently. Only today did I discover there's one for the Flash CS4 (or most up-to-date version of the Flash authoring tool) language reference. And that URL is?:http://adobe.com/go/as3lrThat's right, the same thing in lowercase! This is, currently, a redirect for:http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/

Here's a little fun project I did to recreate E4X (ECMAScript for XML) in the context of display objects and display lists. Three classes are involved (technically 2 classes and 1 namespace); E4DisplayList, E4DisplayObject, and e4d_internal. E4DisplayList and E4DisplayObject mirror XMLList and XML respectively with the e4d_internal namespace providing a place where those objects' members are stored. Here's an example:

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